The Unfortunate Tale of Little Mary Jenkins (short story)

By F.W. Adams

Sam and his three best friends, Nick, Jeff and Scout, find themselves in the middle of a hot boring, summer.

Looking for something to break the boredom, they escape into the dark desert behind Sam’s humble double-wide trailer with a cooler full of sodas with plans to have a night of fun around a bonfire in a secluded clearing.

Surrounded by darkness and the strange sounds of the dark desert night, Scott tells the tragic story of little Mary Jenkins and an innocent game of hide-and-seek—gone terribly, terribly wrong.

What happens when a not-so-friendly neighborhood rivalry ends in tragedy? Vengeance from the dark, dark beyond.

• Language: English
• Publisher: F.W. Adams
• Release date: Sep 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301613687

F.W. Adams

F.W. Adams was born in a hospital and currently lives in the state of denial, where he is a longtime resident in good standing. F.W. is currently working a full-time job, married to a wonderful wife of nearly 10 years (the marriage, not the wife), the father of four highly energetic children five and under and, on the side, working to tell the rest of Sam’s story. “The Unfortunate Tale of Little Mary Jenkins” is his first published work. Follow him in his efforts to warn the world about dangers hidden below at www.stormdrainchronicles.com.

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The Unfortunate Tale of Little Mary Jenkins

F.W. Adams

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Text copyright 2012 F.W. Adams

Original cover image copyright Mel Brackstone, 2012, used under license from Shutterstock.com

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s vivid imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons (living, dead or something in between) is entirely, completely and unequivocally coincidental.

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Many thanks to wife,

Kids, and things unseen that go

Bump in the dark night.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Part I: The Living

Part II: The Dead

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Foreword

I met Sam some time ago. At the time, I was standing on the side of a desolate, dusty rural road, scratching my sweat-soaked head and pretending to myself that I knew how to fix my overheated car. Sam pulled up next to me on his bike as I outwardly affected a knowing stare at the steaming engine, but inwardly contemplated the futility of my effort.

We talked small talk at first, but eventually Sam started telling me a pretty amazing story as we stood on the sun-softened asphalt by the side of my car. Why did he open up to me, a complete stranger? I’m not sure. Perhaps it was my intelligent, kind, courteous, attentive and generally fabulous demeanor. Or perhaps it was my I ♥ Area 51 bumper sticker. Perhaps both?

Either way, the story continued over a long, hot walk into town and eventually ended over ice cold mugs of root beer and a plateful of assorted donuts. I was dumbfounded at what he told me, but I still believed him. It wasn’t even because of the strange, almost imperceptible scars on his arms that he showed me as proof, but rather the detail and earnestness with which he recounted those strange events.